The World's First Cyber-Secure Vehicle Is A European-Made Motorbike

Today, the vehicles on our roads are equipped with a minimum of technologies like Bluetooth, GPS connection, Remote control key, eSIM, and even several apps that allows control of vehicle details and functions from a mobile device. However, if they are not cyber-secure, they are susceptible to being stolen or remotely manipulated.Since many years this has become a reality -cars being stolen, driver’s information being stolen and vehicles being hijacked.  This is one of the reasons why the UNECE - United Nations Economic Commission for Europe - has developed in record time a cybersecurity standard for vehicles: UNECE/R155, which establishes the minimum cybersecurity requirements that a vehicle must accomplish.For the first time in history, a vehicle has passed the test that guarantees its status as a "cybersecure vehicle": It is the NUUK Cargopro electric motorbike, which has obtained this accreditation after passing the EUROCYBCAR Test, in accordance with the requirements of the UNECE/R155 standard and according to the ESTP -EUROCYBCAR Standard Test Protocol- procedure and methodology, developed by EUROCYBCAR -a technology-based company established in Spain, which identifies, evaluates and prevents risks affecting vehicle cybersecurity, fleet management systems and telecommunications infrastructures, in accordance with current regulations.In this scenario, NUUK Mobility Solutions (NMS) -which develops and markets intelligent light electric vehicles- becomes the first automotive firm in the world to offer one of its electric motorbike models with a Vehicle Cybersecurity certificate, according to the new European cybersecurity regulations.Vehicles that pass the EUROCYBCAR Test and obtain the certificate demonstrate that they implement effective means to minimize the risk of a cyber-attack against the privacy and lives of the people on board, as well as the integrity of the vehicle's systemsThis regulation came into force in January 2021 and requires that cars, buses, trucks, vans, trailers and motorhomes that are homologated -from July 2022- and marketed -from July 2024- in the European Union and countries adhering to the regulation, such as Japan, South Korea, Russia, Australia or South Africa, must be cybersecure.Although this regulation does not cover motorbikes, as the UNECE considers that they are not sufficiently connected, EUROCYBCAR has succeeded in demonstrating that UNECE/R155 will also have to include mopeds and motorbikes - vehicles of categories L1, L3 and L4 - as these vehicles are also connected and therefore susceptible to cyber-attacks.The EUROCYBCAR test analyses up to 70 specific cybersecurity threats included in the stringent UNECE/R155 regulation.